«"O, my heart is torn apart / Of tenderness ... O, yes, I loved my life / Without measuring, without quenching passion, / — But by the age of thirty, I have no strength enough". Over a poet, leaning with a smile, / Unknown surgeon then / With lancet will cut his tired chest, / Instead...»
«"L’Amor che muove il Sole e l’altre stelle" / — Dante, Paradiso. XXXIII Above the abyss, a spirit, burningly / Steered worlds with love’s helm; / My spirit, soaring and sailing, / Flew into a Candlemas of stars. Answering the abyss with an abyss; / Holding the firmament in a shor...»
«"Great is their love, who love in sin and fear" / — Byron A day curled and humid exhausted its glare / Sowing the evening fire in between clouds. / Into a circle, darkened, in a circle, gaped, / The unmoving chaos of the colosseum. Out of the stormy gloom, stared / The timeless eyes of...»
«Red autumn / Rushes the faded leaves: / "Begone, fly away / To the shadows of Hades, / Forever bewailing / The short life! / Begone, fly away / From the pastures, awaiting / A new spring!" The night descends, / And from the black sky / The inscrutable stare / Of the eternal st...»